{"id":3696,"date":"2011-04-18T17:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2011-10-29T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:43:13","slug":"a-fist-and-a-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/2011\/a-fist-and-a-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fist and A Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the people who come to Plum are knowledgeable enough about Chinese martial arts to know that the Chinese word \u201cfist\u201d means boxing<!--more--> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5324\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"palmfist1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"78\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>and the word \u201cpalm\u201d doesn&#8217;t just refer to the bottom of the hand. Most styles of Kung Fu are called fists, but this means \u201cboxing\u201d in the context of a title. So when you see the words &#8220;Shaolin Quan&#8221; you don&#8217;t call it Shaolin Fist, you call it <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Shaolin Boxing<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There are only a couple of exceptions to this: like <strong>Pigua, Bagua and Cotton Palm.<\/strong> And in these cases they use the word palm instead of the word fist and what they are referring to is the martial idea that the palm, say the right palm, represents <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">the entire right side<\/span><\/strong> of the body, and the left palm represents the entire left side of the body. They are also referencing the fact that these particular arts use the palm a great deal more than they use the fist. The question is, why?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5322\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"palmfist3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>The first thing we notice when we look at the palm is that it had far more angles of application than the fist does, at least for beginners. This is one of the reasons the palm is used to educate the beginner in all the unusual angles employed to attack or defend. Yet most styles start with the fist. Why?\u00a0 Because it&#8217;s <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">safer<\/span><\/strong> for the practitioner.\u00a0 Palms can be very difficult to use well. You have the problem of wrenching the wrist, of breaking the fingers. You also have the problem that, unless applied correctly, that the large area of the palm will disperse the impact of the strike and in fact deaden its force.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5323\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"palmfist2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>The trick is to understand this. The palm gives you the angles and the fist gives you the proper alignment of the bones. So for instance some instructors\u00a0 start with the fist but evolve the hand usage till the palms are spinning all over the place. Someone who is really good with the palms, started with them and learned all the angles, can generally <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">translate<\/span><\/strong> that back into the fist. When you add that little nicety to\u00a0 punching it is generally called a \u201cbite\u201d; in other words taking that normal fist blow and at the last second twisting the wrist to cause the fist to strike this way or that is like striking with a palm. This tremendously adds to the force and the inflicting of pain on the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>So in the art of Kung Fu, palm and fist are really <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">equivalents<\/span><\/strong>. They are really more approaches to training than anything else.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5321\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"palmfist4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/palmfist4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>NOTE: As far as the idea that the palm represents the entire hemisphere of the body, you have to understand that Chinese is one of those languages with all its technical terms in the original language rather than borrowed from, say, the Latin or the Greek. Thus words are yoked to double duty, common and technical. The word \u201cwind\u201d means just what it says, but has a different use for a Chinese doctor where it refers to disease. The word palm means palm but in the martial context has a number of technical turns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Resources, a few lesser known palm arts:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 83px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/vcd\/coll_cotton.htm#579\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"Cotton Palm Kung Fu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/VCD2\/vcd2mini\/vcd579m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"73\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cotton Palm Kung Fu<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 98px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/vcd3\/coll_xiaoyao.htm#881\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Xiao Yao Wushu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/VCD3\/vcd881m.jpg\" alt=\"Xiao Yao Wushu\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xiao Yao Wushu<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/vcd2\/coll_wutangnanzong.htm#570\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"Dragon Palm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/VCD2\/vcd2mini\/vcd570m.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Palm\" width=\"70\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dragon Palm<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 79px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/dvd\/dvdcoll_WDboxing.htm#11127\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/DVD\/dvd11127m.jpg\" alt=\"Wudang Palm\" width=\"69\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wudang Palm<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/vcd3\/coll_WuDangdragon.htm#855\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"Coiling Dragon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/VCD3\/vcd855m.jpg\" alt=\"Coiling Dragon\" width=\"95\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coiling Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the people who come to Plum are knowledgeable about Chinese martial arts to know that the Chinese word \u201cfist\u201d means boxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[829,830,8,136],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cotton-palm","tag-dragon-palm","tag-kung-fu","tag-wudang"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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